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Wood-fired pizza and goats: Do you need any more reason to drive to Orting? At Terra Organic's annual Harvest Fest, you can also pick the perfect pumpkin to carve. The crisp air of the fall in the country and the sunchoke maze are pretty good reasons for getting in a
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If you haven't seen the University of Puget Sound sorority sister holding a stein along the Thea Foss Waterway promotion, then by some miracle the Tacoma Waterfront Association has you on their 20th tier list. The 50 or so slated sisters in lederhosen earning their community service and hydroplane champion
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Beer! Lederhosen! Beer! Bratwurst! Beer! Yodeling! Beer! Manuela Horn and the Oktoburlesques! Beer! Oktoberfest Northwest has all of these fine things, but, most importantly, it has beer. The three-day Bavarian celebration at the Washington State Fair and Events Center officially kicks off at 6:15 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3 with the
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Have you heard? Tacoma's gargantuan feast of literary, visual and performing arts has moved from November to October. That's right; October is Tacoma Arts Month (formerly Art at Work Month), but the festivities actually start Oct. 2 with an opening party and the AMOCAT Arts Awards presentation at the Tacoma
Arts
Whether you know it or not, Tacoma is a fricken artsy place. Tucked into old buildings, abandoned storefronts and sometimes even brand new buildings are galleries, artist studios and places to learn a bit of art as well. All year round, the arts scene in Tacoma is part of what
Military Resources
Doubling down on a house is a good thing. Since 1992, the Fisher House has been a haven of comfort for family members to come and be near to loved ones receiving care at Madigan Army Medical Army Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. "The Fisher House is our commitment to our warfighters
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The old films are fading; the battle footage turning yellow; the color growing fainter with each year; the airplanes are stuttering in the air; the trucks and tanks growing dim. The photographs are starting to disappear; the images receding into the past. These are not the films of Word War
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Largely because of its abundance of offerings, the Olympia Arts Walk is a bit of a cross between a scavenger hunt and a grab bag. Local businesses - 93 of them this fall - become galleries for the weekend, week or month, showing paintings, sculptures, photographs and more. Some
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Largely because of its abundance of offerings, the Olympia Arts Walk is a bit of a cross between a scavenger hunt and a grab bag. Local businesses - 96 of them this fall - become galleries for the weekend, week or month, showing paintings, sculptures, photographs and more. Some serve as
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There's a thunder on the horizon, Gritty City, and it's not our inevitable return to a gray autumn rainscape. No, that ominous rumble you hear, pitched way, way down in the basso profundo hum of a gathering tremor, is nothing more than the return of the Dockyard Derby Dames: Tacoma's
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Give in. It's officially autumn. Sshhhh, don't fight it. There's plenty to marvel in the changing of seasons: bright orange and red leaves fluttering from the trees, mists of rain drops falling from the skies and pumpkin. Yes, pumpkin, that delectable orange orbished gourd that boasts compelling flavor and defines
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[JUNKYARD CABARET] + SAT, SEPT. 27 The Bad Things are born out of cabaret and drink. A motley crew, made up of urchins and drunkards, the Bad Things bring theatricality and tongue-in-cheek fatalism to a variety of genres. Taking cues from the likes of Tom Waits and the Pogues, the band
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Alejandro Jodorowsky was a complicated artist with a wide reach. His friends in the ‘70s valley of wild artistic expression included Salvador Dali, H.R. Giger, Gong, Pink Floyd, John Lennon and Orson Welles (as depicted in the recent documentary documenting a failed Frank Herbert adaptation, Jodorowsky's Dune). His 1970 film,